Assessing the Effects of Enhanced SupplyChain Visibility Through RFID

The majority of RFID implementations can be traced back either to mandates issued by companies or institutions withsignificant market power like Wal-Mart or the U.S. Department of Defense, or to the replacement of existing Auto-IDtechnologies like barcodes. Only sporadically is RFID being used to derive superior information about current processes inorder to create supply chain visibility. In this contribution, we examine the visibility potentials of RFID technology within thecontext of SCM and we propose a four-step approach to assessing the results that can be achieved through visibility...